A story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation.

A posthumously discovered mystery by the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Difficulties and desolation on the prairie.

An intelligent, popular high school student falls in with a gaggle of bad kids, drugs, and the occult.

An abandoned boy wanders through dangerous World War II Europe–and survives.

Arnost Lustig’s, A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA; just before a young girl is gassed by the Nazis, she gets her...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, THE SCARLET LETTER; the daring Hester Prynne has an affair, births a daughter, and manages their lives, despite...

Jean Craighead George’s, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN; Sam Gribley is an unhappy city boy who runs away to the...

Tom Wolfe’s, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES; the collision of snobbish Wall Street with the backstreet of the Bronx.

Erich Segal’s, LOVE STORY; Very young, potent love; very young, potent death.

After a matriarch passes on, her divisive family assembles for a meal.

The life of Camille Pissarro, the Jewish Impressionist–and the author’s last book.